Material constraint parameters for the assessment of shallow defects in structural components - Part I: Parameter solutions

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 72, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 2373-2395

  Sherry, Andrew H ^a   Wilkes, M A ^b   Beardsmore, D W ^b   Lidbury, D P G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SERCO ASSURANCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cleavage fracture; Constraint; Fracture toughness; Q stress; R6; T stress

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STEEL METALLOGRAPHY; STRAIN HARDENING; TABLE LOOKUP;

BEREMIN CLEAVAGE FRACTURE MODEL PARAMETER; ELASTIC T-STRESS; ELASTIC-PLASTIC Q-STRESS; FERRITIC STEEL;

CONSTRAINT THEORY;

DEFECT; STEEL; WORK HARDENING;

EID: 22144486960     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2004.12.009     Document Type: Article

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